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Join us at Bluestockings for a night of queer reading & resilience to celebrate the launch of Icarus Project co-founder Jacks McNamara’s first book, Inbetweenland. Featuring readings by Jacks and the astonishing Damien Luxe and Victor Tobar.
About Inbetweenland
Part love song, part howl, part incantation, Inbetweenland is the first book-length collection of Jacks McNamara’s poems, prose, and hybrid experiments in the neon vernacular of being alive. Mapping out radical trajectories through loss, violence, and queer desire, McNamara creates a luminous archive of survival and resilience in a self-destructing world. A visual artist as well as a writer, the author relies heavily on the unexpected image to chronicle the impossible journey through body, family, and history–towards home. From the borderlands of madness to the unpredictable shape of peace, Inbetweenland bears unflinching witness to a rarely charted geography, offering the reader a resonant poetics of insurrection and grace.
Find out more at http://ashley-mcnamara.net/content/inbetweenland
DAMIEN LUXE is a Brooklyn-based queer femme liberationist artist, digital technologist, community organizer and activist who produces and performs political and participatory multimedia works at galleries, cabarets, festivals and literary events all over the US and Canada. D’Luxe’s work as a performer blurs lines between the body and communities, activism and art, and science and story.
She is the co-producer of the annual Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow, a multi-racial and working-class-led feminine-spectrum queer performance art tour and monthly event [heelsonwheelsroadshow.com]. And she just completed a Master’s degree focusing on resistant power at the intersection of technology and political art. She’s building a database of raised fists at http://fistisraised.femmetech.org/commons/.
Her recent major works include: Exorcize, Hot Pink Mass, and Femmes Fight Back. She’ll be reading from a memoir-in-progress on resiliency.
VICTOR TOBAR is a Queer gender non-conforming writer, performer, arts educator and sex nerd. Born and raised in the Bronx, Victor currently resides in Brooklyn, where he writes poems, letters, and short stories about the ghosts of nostalgia, the beauty of madness, and vivid dreams of a QTPOC-centric tomorrow. He’s been part of the New York arts and literary scene for fifteen years (and counting). Most recently, Victor founded and co-curated “Ruckus”, a reading and performance series that featured the works of Queer and Trans artists of color in New York City. Victor is a proud alum of Mangos with Chili, with whom he toured the Northeast and Canada. Victor helped develop and mentor QQ&A, a creative writing and performance workshop series for Queer and Questioning youth, with Urban Word NYC. In 2000, he repped NYC as part of the Brave New Voices Youth Slam Team. Currently, Victor works as a sex educator at one of New York’s premier sex shops. He also draws birds obsessively.
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